The Legacy of Dominicanidad: A Symposium on the Work of Lorgia García Peña

Date and Time

January 30, 2020
09:15AM - 05:30PM EST

Location

Thompson Room, Barker Center
The Legacy of Dominicanidad: A Symposium on the Work of Lorgia García Peña   Thursday, January 30, 2020 Thompson Room, Barker Center Free and open to the public Live-stream with closed captioning here     9:15                     Welcome                                                 Walter Johnson, Warren Center Faculty Director                                                 Nicole Guidotti-Hernández, Warren Center Fellow; Emory   9:30-11:40           Ethnic Studies and Lorgia García Peña's Scholarship                                                 Moderated by: Takeo Rivera (Boston University)                                                 Lourdes Torres (De Paul, and editor of Latino Studies)                                                           George Lipsitz (UCSB)                       Chris Rodelo (Harvard, graduate student)                       Laura Briggs (UMASS Amherst)   11:40-12:50         Lunch   1:00-2:40              Dominicanidad's Diasporic Reverberations                                                 Moderated by: Denise Khor (University of Massachusetts Boston)                                    Silvio Torres-Saillant (Syracuse)                                    Ginetta Candelario (Smith)                                                                             Elizabeth Manley (Xavier)                                                                                             2:40-2:55              Break   3:00-5:10              What we are fighting for: Lorgia García Peña's Scholarly Legacy                                                  Moderated by: Marisol LeBron (University of Texas at Austin)                                                  Ramona Hernández (CUNY)                                                  Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA)                        Keish Kim (Harvard, graduate student)                        Cornel West (Harvard)   5:10-5:30              Closing remarks                                                 Ju Yon Kim (Harvard)                                                 Genevieve Clutario (Wellesley)   Presented by Harvard University’s Warren Center for Studies in American History, with…
Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center
Boston University’s African American Studies Program
Boston University’s Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department
Boston University’s Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program
Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, & Sexuality (housed at M.I.T.)
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Mahindra Humanities Center   Duke University Press is offering open access to The Borders of Dominicanidad until Feburary 6, 2020: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373667   For 30% off print copies, use coupon code (E19GRCIA) during checkout at https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-borders-of-dominicanidad